Madrid Spain.- Experienced diplomat Benjamin G. Ziff was appointed as the new Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Cuba. Ziff took office on July 14, according to the consular headquarters on Monday.
“On behalf of the diplomatic staff of the Embassy of the United States, we want to welcome our new chief of mission of the Embassy in Havana, Cuba, Chargé d’Affaires Benjamin G. Ziff,” wrote the entity in Twitter.
On behalf of the diplomatic staff of the Embassy of the United States, we would like to welcome our new chief of mission of the Embassy in Havana Cuba, Chargé d’Affaires Benjamin G. Ziff. Please see his biography at the link: https://t.co/RMW928m92t pic.twitter.com/mGh99NTOTl
— Embassy of the United States in Cuba (@USEmbCuba) July 25, 2022
The incumbent previously served as Director of the Migration Working Group of the Western Hemisphere Office of the Department of State, where he was responsible for coordinating the Department’s hemispheric migration policy and strategy, the Embassy highlighted in summarizing his Biography.
Ziff came to this position after being appointed a State Department senior fellow for the US German Marshall Fund (GMF), where he worked on US-European relations and restoring the transatlantic relationship, he notes. information.
Previously, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Madrid and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Office of European Affairs, responsible for relations with the Nordic and Baltic countries and for the Department’s European public diplomacy efforts.
He has also been Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Colombia and worked in public diplomacy positions in Australia, Israel, Panama and Peru. After a year at the National War College in Washington, DC, he was deputy director of the State Department’s Bureau of Central American Affairs before holding a series of senior public diplomacy positions at US embassies in Venezuela, Italy and Iraq.
A native of California, Ziff received a bachelor’s degree in political science from California State University, Long Beach, a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a master’s degree in National Security Studies from the National War College. He has received the Murrow Award for Public Diplomacy from the Department of State and the Presidential Rank Award.
The diplomat, who is already in Cuba, is the seventeenth head of the US mission on the island since its reopening in 1977.
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